Democracy category: 2250 books
Democracy in Decline
Steps in the Wrong Direction
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Part lament, part provocative call-to-action, Democracy in Decline charts how democracy is being diluted and restricted in five of the world's oldest democracies - the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. James Allan targets four main, interconnected causes of decline...
Democracy Promotion and the Normative Power Europe Framework
The European Union in South Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
This book presents a topical, holistic assessment of the European Union’s democracy promotion in South-East Europe, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, analyzed through the prism of the Normative Power Europe (NPE) framework of transnational policy formation. To do so, it brings together three scholarly...
The Despot's Apprentice
Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
”[A] primer on the threat to democracy posed by—and I can’t believe I’m saying this—the current president of the United States.”
—David Litt, New York Times bestselling author
Donald Trump isn’t a despot. But he is increasingly acting like The Despot’s Apprentice, an understudy...
by Alecos Papadatos, Abraham Kawa, Annie Di Donna
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Democracy opens in 490 B.C., with Athens at war. The hero of the story, Leander, is trying to rouse his comrades for the morrow's battle against a far mightier enemy, and begins to recount his own life, having borne direct witness to the evils of the old tyrannical regimes and to the emergence of...
Democracy, Equality, and Justice
John Adams, Adam Smith, and Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2007
Challenging common interpretations of the political thought of John Adams and Adam Smith, Democracy, Equality and Justice offers an engaging and novel portrait of the political economy in America at its founding. The founders believed that liberty should not trump community, but should exist within...
by Bernard Crick
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2002
No political concept is more used, and misused, than that of democracy. Nearly every regime today claims to be democratic, but not all 'democracies' allow free politics, and free politics existed long before democratic franchises. This book is a short account of the history of the doctrine and practice...
Popular Sovereignty and Constituent Power in Latin America
Democracy from Below
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book combines a bottom-up and top-down approach to the study of social movements in relationship to the development of constituent and constituted power in Latin America. The contributors to this volume argue that the radical transformation of liberal representative democracy into participative...
The China Model
Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.”...
by Paul Freston
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
In Latin America, evangelical Protestantism poses an increasing challenge to Catholicism's long-established religious hegemony. At the same time, the region is among the most generally democratic outside the West, despite often being labeled as 'underdeveloped.' Scholars disagree whether Latin American...
The Confidence Trap
A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy...
by Yerzhan Dosmukhamedov
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Kazakhstan's Assassinated Democracy describes how the highest levels of government in Kazakhstan are attempting to suppress the country's genuine democratization particularly through the case of a political party Atameken. It is based on extensive interviews with Dr. Yerzhan K. Dosmukhamedov...
by Ian Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
In this book Ian Shapiro develops and extends arguments that have established him as one of today's leading democratic theorists. Shapiro is hardheaded about the realities of politics and power, and the difficulties of fighting injustice and oppression. Yet he makes a compelling case that democracy's...
by Gerry Dorrian
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Was the 2005 UK general election rigged?In other words: does democracy tend to give rise to fascism, freedom to oppression, tolerance to intolerance?The answer to these questions is necessary to understand the explosion of anti-democratic sentiment immediately after the UK’s European Union (EU)...
by David Halloran Lumsdaine
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
Although a minority of the Asian population, Protestants in Asia are a fast-growing group. What are the political implications of this evangelical Christianity? In some cases, religion has enabled poor and marginalized people to gain greater prosperity, self-confidence and civic skills, and more open-minded...